Programme du soir (PDF) - Philharmonie Luxembourg

joué pour la Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week à New York en 2009
pour le défilé de Ports 1961. Red Baraat a fait l’objet d’articles du
National Geographic, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Relix,
Songlines, etc.
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Red Baraat
It’s a sound so powerful it has left the band in its own utterly
unique and enviable class. These days you are as likely to find
Red Baraat throwing down at an overheated and unannounced
warehouse party in their Brooklyn neighborhood as you are at
the Barbican or the Montreal Jazz Festival, or Lincoln Center. It’s
a band unquestionably on the ascent playing some of the most
prestigious festivals and theatres worldwide, and keeping their
chops razor sharp in basements and sweaty sold out clubs across
New York City. Leading an audience as diverse and joyful as the
band itself, Red Baraat has subsumed a plateful of global influ-
ence, fused it, and is now exporting it Brooklyn-style to the world.
In just four short years, the pioneering Brooklyn dhol’n’brass
party juggernaut Red Baraat have made a name for themselves
as one of the best live bands playing anywhere in the world. Led
by dhol player Sunny Jain, the nine piece comprised of dhol
(double-sided barrel shaped North Indian drum slung over one
shoulder) drumset, percussion, sousaphone and five horns, melds
the infectious North Indian rhythm Bhangra with a host of sounds,
namely funk, go-go, latin, and jazz. Simply put, Sunny Jain and
Red Baraat have created and defined a sound entirely their own.
The group’s most recent release, «Bootleg Bhangra», is the
band’s incredibly powerful live show captured at Brooklyn’s South-
paw on the band’s second anniversary. With songs pulled primar-
ily from their debut album, «Chaal Baby» the group was mind-
ful of the challenge to capture a rapturous live sound on record.
Well, it happened on this night, and the resulting document places
you squarely in that small Brooklyn club jammed from front to
back with hip shaking beauties – hands raised to a ceiling drip-
ping with condensation. The band is currently at work on their
second studio date, «Shruggy Ji», which was released in early
2012. Most recently, the title track, Chaal Baby, is being used
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